Olivia de Havilland is Gone with the Wind

[kalowski]

Died aged 104.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

She joined that stupid club.

[shiftwork2]

Born in 1882, blimey.

RIP

[Sin Agog]

Ah, that's a drag.  Those Errol Flynn movies were some of the first films I got into of my own accord (as opposed to just watching what was on).  Her sister Joan had the foxier eyebrows, but they were both great actresses. It's a shame she and Flynn made one of the dodgiest movies of the era, Santa Fe Trail, which positions abolitionists as rabid terrorist scum who can't just let the southern plantation owners slowly make up their own minds at their own pace.  John Brown is the movie's Bin Laden, and all the slaveowners are essentially decent, honest folk.  Errol Flynn literally did slave trading in his youth at Papua New Guinea so I'm not surprised he made that piece of shit, but I wonder if de Havilland ever had any qualms.  I guess you just did whatever you were assigned in those days.  Maybe that movie was one of the things that inspired her to spearhead the 'De Havilland law': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Law

Um, anyway, RIP.

[Gulftastic]

She's joined co-star Cark Gable.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Born in 1882, blimey.

She was 138? What?

[Chedney Honks]

Frankly my dear, I don't give a shit

[Keebleman]

Last of the Golden Age.  The last.  With her passing, no significant personnel from Hollywood's classic period remain.

[Pingers]

One of the most glamorous names of all time if you ask me

[Butchers Blind]

Died aged 104.

No age is it.  Gone too soon.

[shiftwork2]

Nah, she was 138.  She had a good innings.

[Satchmo Distel]

Apparently she put on a lot of weight in the last few years so will be Olivia de Heavyload for the poor buggers carrying the coffin.

[Jittlebags]

Sparks:

"I'm telling you, gone with the wind
There's a lot to be said for it
But I don't know just what
Without spoiling the plot
Gone with the wind - there's a lot to be said for it
But I don't know just what
We didn't watch a lot
Gone with the wind - there's a lot to be said for it
But I couldn't say just what
All I did was bruise a lot
Gone with the wind - there's a lot to be said for it
But I couldn't say just what
They don't tell my type the plot"

[hamfist]

Fucking finally

[Buelligan]

Great in The Thick of It, I thought.

[dissolute ocelot]

No mention in any of the obits I saw of her role alongside Ronald Reagan in creating the Hollywood anti-communist witchhunts and blacklists in the late 40s.

Didn't know until now she was related to the de Havilland aircraft family. (Fontaine was her birth surname.)

[Paul Calf]

That's someone old enough to remember the war, Boomer cunts. 104. So fuck your Blitz Sprit, cunts.

[touchingcloth]

Gone with the Wind was released in 1939.

One way to look at that is that it's 81 years ago, but another is that it's 78 years from the start of the civil war it depicts. Fuck my bonnet.

[Buelligan]

So she was 61 when she starred in that. 

[shiftwork2]

Uh-oh, somebody can't add up.  She was 57.

[Buelligan]

She altered the papers, I've studied them, in those days, if you were a lady, you were finished by the time you hit 80.

Here she is, as a child actor, in her first part -


_{Fourteen year old Ollie in The Thick of It}

[idunnosomename]

Never heard of her. What a waste of a life.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

I really fancied her in that teen lesbian thing she did in the mid noughties.